When the Pethidine killers struck fear in people across Tamil Nadu

In 1970-72, a gang posing as Customs officers kidnapped and murdered seven gold merchants and hawala operators after whisking them away in the name of inquiry from lodges in Chennai. A court sentenced four of the gang to death and four others to life in prison

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